Boko Haram

While much of tha world has focused on tha terror attacks in Paris and tha Islamic militants' capture of swaths of Syria and Iraq has gone on a bloody rampage through northeastern Nigeria.Human rights groups have sounded alarms about this Organization's recent brutality: tha slaughter of up to 2,000 people in the Nigerian towns of Baga and Doron Baga on Jan. 3 and tha subsequent strapping of explosives on girls as young as 10 to detonate in public places......2,000 dead: Massacre deadliest in Nigerian history..... 1st gained international notoriety for its savagery in April 2014, when it abducted 276 girls from a boarding school in Chibok and threatened to sell them as wives and sex slaves. Tha "bring back our girls" movement began with Nigerian village women demanding government action and grew into a worldwide rallying cry, with participants that included first lady Michelle Obama. Some of tha girls later escaped but the fate of remaining captives is still unknown. In addition to its ruthless tactics, They echoes tha Islamic State in its aspiration to create a "caliphate" across national borders by crossing into neighboring Chad, Niger and Cameroon. On Monday, its fighters seized the Cameroonian border town of Kolofata. Cameroon's government said its forces killed 143 militants. Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Islamist extremist group appears on a video claiming to show some of tha missing Nigerian schoolgirls on May 12 at an undisclosed location. The video shows about 130 of the 276 girls, wearing the full-length hijab and praying at an undisclosed rural location. The schoolgirls were abducted on April 14 from a school in Chibok, Nigeria. Shekau speaks on a May 12 video. Tha kidnapped schoolgirls appear in video.The kidnapped schoolgirls are shown dressed in hijabs and praying in a video released by Abubakar Shekau militants. Nigeria has generally rejected offers of assistance from Britain and tha United States "because of tha conditions that come with such assistance U.S. law prohibits U.S. military assistance to countries that commit human rights abuses. Tha Nigerian military's operations against Abubakar Shekau have resulted in multiple allegations of illegal killings and detentions of suspected Abubakar Shekau members reported by rights groups such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, according to the State Department. Nigerian officials have rejected those claims as "fabrications," National pride also seems to be a factor, Tha Nigerians have always felt themselves more capable and big enough and strong enough to take care of their own crises Yet tha country still has no cohesive military strategy to turn tha tide and protect tha population, . "It's not tha way a state functions if it hopes to survive, unless it's unaware of tha gravity of tha threat.